The Louisiana Sportsman Open bass tournament – South Louisiana’s richest tournament – is just more than a week away, with the first-place team walking away with $10,000 and the total payout based on 100 boats reaching nearly $28,000.
If 100 teams sign up for the Louisiana Sportsman Open, the tournament will pay out a total of $27,375 – which is $7,375 more than total entry fees. […]
Maynor Creek Water Park, consisting of about 500 acres and located near Waynesboro, once was a very productive bass-fishing lake before going into a downturn, but it’s currently making a comeback.
Big bass are being caught again at this lake that once produced numbers of 10-pounders. The lake was drawn down several years ago to repair the dam. Because of that drawdown, the buck willows and other groves of trees flourished on what was the lake bottom. When the lake was brought back to normal pool, an abundance of cover had sprung up close to the shoreline in the shallow water. […]
Bass anglers are visual creatures. We like blinking metal flake on our boats. We like crankbaits that push the limits of the color wheel. And we like throwing to targets that we can see.
That’s why I was so impressed when Kenny Churchill idled into Cane Creek on Ross Barnett Reservoir near Jackson. My eyes immediately told me that Cane Creek is what I would call a target-rich environment.
The co-owner of Performance Outboards wanted to show me how to fish the winter remnants of lily pad flats that carpet Ross Barnett Reservoir during the summer. […]
While watching a fishing show about 15 years ago, Kenny Churchill saw a couple professional bass anglers fishing Rat-L-Traps through standing lily pad stems. They were catching a lot of fish, but the one thing he noticed was how much they were staying hung and how hard they were working to free their baits. […]
Petal’s Cliff Pace has fished pad-stem flats all over the country as he travels to fish the Bassmaster Elite Series tournaments, and he has put together a solid explanation as to why bass love getting around the shallow stems. […]
Former Bassmaster Classic champion Paul Elias is one of four being inducted into the Bass Fishing Hall of Fame during a banquet to be held next Friday (Feb. 24) in conjunction with the 2012 Bassmaster Classic in Shreveport, La.
Joining Elias will be longtime B.A.S.S. photographer Gerald Crawford, award-winning videographer Glenn Lau and bass-boat innovator Holmes Thurmond. […]
Fishing buddies Sid McNeil and Len Killough had read some reports that big Davis Lake bass were starting to move up creeks in preparation for the spawn, so they took a day off of work yesterday (Feb. 9) and headed to the state lake south of Pontotoc.
“We went primarily to look for big fish,” McNeil said. “This time of he year is when it’s easiest to catch them: They’re going to be fattened up.” […]
Springlike weather has already settled in to much of the state, and that means it’s just a matter of time before sow bass begin initiating spawning activity. Oktibbeha, Okhissa, Calling Panther, the Pearl River. The spawn is on the way. […]
It’s great when that first cast meets with aggressive reception, but often, it takes some dialing in to determine the fish’s preference. Notwithstanding the oft-proven merits of junk fishing, a handful of examples show us that certain lure pairings hold particularly strategic benefit. Like a boxer setting up his opponent with jabs and then sneaking in a body shot or a Major League pitcher throwing the changeup, there’s more to successful bass fishing than randomly grabbing lures and hoping for the best.
This month, I’m picking Lake Ross Barnett, near Jackson. To find the bass, we’ve got to shrink the lake and concentrate on where they’re most likely to be and the lures they’re most likely to take. This month, bass have spawning on their minds, and they’re looking for warm, shallow water, and structure in the water in those two areas. […]
How quick are you on the follow-up cast? Can you reel up the first rod, grab a different one and drop a new bait at the point of a missed strike in, say, 10 seconds? A little less? No matter your speed — and assuming you can do it with accuracy — you simply won’t present a follow-up bait faster than a tandem rig. […]
Roaring up Lake Ferguson in his Ranger boat wide open and on full plane, Terry Bates suddenly backed off the throttle and made a quick left turn up into “the chute.” […]
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